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VALD launches 2021 Tobacco Industry Interference Index Report on Ghana

Benefits of Tobacco Taxation Reforms to National Development

Besides the negative public health and human capital impacts, the hiking dangers of tobacco-related diseases also place a heavy cost on public health spending as well as household budgets and the national economy. The total socio-economic cost of tobacco-related diseases includes but is not limited to healthcare costs, work absenteeism, obstruction from the performance of […]

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Open the Aflao Border for us to come and bury our chief – Agotime Chiefs plead with Gov’t

Open the Aflao Border for us to come and bury our chief – Agotime Chiefs plead with Gov’t

The Executive Coordinator of the Central Funeral Planning Committee for the late Konor (Paramount Chief) of the Agotime Traditional Area, Elvis Ativoe, has on behalf of the chiefs and people of the Traditional Area appealed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to urgently consider opening the country’s Eastern boarders to allow for  the indigenes of the […]

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MAJOR-GENERAL KOTIA: What exactly did you tell the Togolese at Cinkassé? - An Owula Mangortey observation

MAJOR-GENERAL KOTIA: What exactly did you tell the Togolese at Cinkassé? – An Owula Mangortey observation

I am a Citizen. I research and write on Security and Intelligence matters. I rise to ask Major-General Kotia, the National Coordinator of the Ghana Boundary Commission, what exactly he told the Togolese at Cinkassé that resulted in the settlement of the long standing boundary dispute in the Bempeliga, Berlitanga, Widana, Pulmakom and Kunzuogu areas […]

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Parliament: NDC, NPP MPs ‘Fight’ over Keta Sea Erosion

The Deputy Majority Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Efutu constituency, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has come face-to-face with with his colleague Rockson-Nelson Etsey Dafeamekpor over a controversial sand weaning picture. The two lawyers nearly turned parliament into a boxing ring as they hustled each other over an images purported to be people weaning sand […]

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Music: Strongman's New Single ‘Last Verse’ provokes Thoughts

Music: Strongman’s New Single ‘Last Verse’ provokes Thoughts

Just a day to the release of his third studio collective ‘The Tape EP’, multiple award-winning Ghanaian rapper Strongman voices out on a thought-provoking braggadocious single ‘Last Verse’ with visuals directed by KobbyShots. Stream Last Verse by Strongman here – https://audiomack.com/strongmanburner/song/last-verse On the low melodic instrumentation wastes no time in drawing listeners into the feels […]

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